4th edition Annual International Labour Conference - All You Imagine as Light: Strengthening Labour Institutions and Amplifying Worker Voice for Decent Employment
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Summary
The Centre for Public Policy & Governance, Goa Institute of Management (GIM), in collaboration with INDAM invites scholars to submit and present research papers at the conference. Interested scholars/researchers/academics, faculty members and others may kindly participate. Email an extended 1000-words abstract and brief CV to the Centre, by FRIDAY, 9th May 2025.
In the subject line kindly write “CPPG-GIM / Labour Conference 2025 / Your Name / Title of Paper”.
Kindly email your extended abstracts and brief CV to chaircppg@gim.ac.in or bernice@gim.ac.in.
The Conference will be held in hybrid mode, via Zoom and at our campus in Sanquelim, Goa^.
The title of the Conference: All You Imagine as Light: Strengthening Labour Institutions and Amplifying Worker Voice for Decent Employment.
Sub-themes/issues covered are:
- Assessing decent work deficit in the Indian labour market
- Strengthening worker voice in a changing world: challenges and strategies
- Building inclusive labour institutions in a changing world
- From law to impact: strengthening labour regulation for ensuring decent work
- Can standard growth and development models deliver decent employment growth?
See for ‘Call for Papers’: Labour Conference_June 2025
Keynote speaker/Discussant

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Schedule
5.30 pm to 6.00 pm: Registration and Refreshments
6.00 pm to 6.05 pm: Welcome (Dr. Pushkar and Ms. Bernice de Souza)
6.05 pm to 6.10 pm: Inaugural Remarks by Prof. Ajit Parulekar, Director, GIM
6.10 pm to 6.15 pm: Inaugural Remarks by Prof. Imran Rahman, Vice Chancellor, ULAB
6.15 pm to 6.20 pm: Setting the Context (Prof. Sebastian Morris, Chair, CPPG-GIM)
6.20 pm to 7.00 pm: Keynote address by Prof. Sudeep Chakravarti, Director, C-SAS, ULAB
7.00 pm to 7.25 pm: Open session, discussion and Q&A (Moderated by Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar, Member, CPPG)
7.25 pm to 7.30 pm: Vote of Thanks (Ms. Christal Ferrao)
Contact Persons
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar, Associate Professor, and Member, CPPG, GIM
Email: kingshuk@gim.ac.in
Contact no: +91 9007704524; +91 8322366942
Ms. Bernice de Souza, Senior Research Associate, CPPG, GIM
Email: bernice@gim.ac.in
Mb: +91 9923693329
Ms. Nandini Tank, Research Associate, CPPG, GIM
Email: nandini.tank@gim.ac.in
Mb: +91 8780235541